Facebook and Twitter are now how many users interface with the internet. But believe it or not, the internet used to be a lot less closed in, a lot less insular. We formed tribes on message boards and later, in comment sections. There are still communities that form around websites (we have one here) but for the most part, Facebook changed the way we live our lives. That makes it all the more dangerous when they start deciding what is and isn’t “appropriate.” In the months leading up to the election, I saw so many violent, frightening memes against Hillary Clinton that you would not believe. And this is just on the Bernie Sanders side of things. None of those idiots were banned from Facebook. Why, because this kind of thing takes mobilization. A lot of angry people probably reported Tess Rafferty, Steve Cohen and Aaron Barrocas’s briliant video “Aftermath” because, I’m guessing, it either insulted Bernie Sanders supporters or else it insulted Trump supporters.

Her video is brilliant. It says everything. That this would be called hate speech tells you all you need to know about the kind of people who just took power. They flip it. They are the ones who just elected someone who was okay with the white nationalist movement supporting him. You should see what Ann Coulter, Trump’s main adviser, says about immigrants. But no, THIS is hate speech. Shame on you, Facebook.